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Research Scholar Shlomo Angel shares insights on managing urban expansion
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Excerpt from Quartz -- "'[Cities] can’t contain expansion. Expansion is growing in leaps and bounds,' says Angel, who heads an NYU initiative that advises cities on how to make sprawl as 'vibrant, inclusive, and affordable' as possible. This rules out, for example, simply drawing an urban boundary to limit sprawl; places like Seoul and Portland, Oregon, have tried that and house prices have gone through the roof, making the cities unaffordable for many."
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